Your comment raises the question of why we keep seeing reports of various thousands of Russian soldiers killed, but rarely a word about the deaths of Ukrainian soldiers, only civilians. You get the impression from news reports that 20,000 Russian soldiers have died, but only about 200 Ukrainian soldiers.
If Ukraine has less than 50,000 casualties or 20,000 UNIFORMED dead, I’ll eat my hat.
I would not be surprised if 20,000 were in Mariupol alone.
My guess is probably 10,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers plus 10,000 dead civilians. It could easily be 50,000 dead civilians with the way Russians are blowing everything up.
That’s just because the Ukes are better at PR than the Rukes.
Even if there are 20k dead Russians, they won’t care. That’s one of their strengths as a military strategy, the ability to absorb deep losses.
Just keep in mind that the Russians are the invaders. Also, that they signed the same agreement we signed which “assures” sovereignty and borders for Ukraine, in exchange for dismantling nuke weapons. The Ukes honored the agreement, the Rukes violated it twice by invading, and we are busy looking for ways to abrogate our responsiblities.
If we can’t be trusted on such an important issue as nuke nonproliferation, then we are all doomed.
And, of course, 18 million Ukrainian civilians, almost all of whom happened to be in the train station to get the last train to Clarksville when a Russian missile hit the place.
I think it's clear we're being led to believe that Ukraine is something more than a Russian speedbump.
Why would any side tell the world about its casualties when it doesn’t have to? We admitted the cost of 3 days at Tarawa and it could have cost Nimitz, Turner and Gen Smith their jobs as MacArthur and his supporters highlighted the casualties as evidence of CINCPAC’s incompetence. The casualtied horrified much of the country.
Regardless of news reports, its likely from state of unit exhaustion both sides are suffering, the casualties are near even with the Ruskies having a few thousand more. In several places along the ‘front’, its coming down to a question of will and morale as to who prevails.